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'Stay!' said Valancourt, 'I conjure you stay, for I have itation of my mind has hitherto suffered me to speak only

on the subject that occupied it;--I have forborne to mention a doubt of

much importance, partly, lest it should appear as if I told it with

an ungenerous view of alar you into a coitated, did not leave Valancourt, but she led him from the

pavilion, and, as they walked upon the terrace, he proceeded as follows:

'This Montoni: I have heard so him Are you

certain he is of Madame Quesnel's family, and that his fortune is what

it appears to be?'

'I have no reason to doubt either,' replied Emily, in a voice of alarm

'Of the first, indeed, I cannot doubt, but I have no certainof the latter, and I entreat you will tell me all you have

heard' 'That I certainly will, but it is very iathered it by accident fro

to another person of this Montoni They were talking of his e;

the Italian said, that if he was the person he meant, he was not likely

to eneral

ter his

character, that excited my curiosity, and I ventured to ask him a few

questions He was reserved in his replies, but, after hesitating for

some time, he owned, that he had understood abroad, that Montoni was a

of a castle

of Montoni's, situated ae

circuht be mentioned, as to his former mode of life